Monday, September 4, 2017

Mahlmann, quoting Dittmer, on the phrase ecclesia semper reformanda

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The traditional dichotomous division . . . of [the] church into [a] spiritual community (inward, eccl[esia] abscondita, proprie, community...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

mysterio > virtute

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"May this sacred offering, O Lord, confer on us always the blessing of salvation, that what it celebrates in mystery it may accomplish ...

T. S. Eliot in 1935

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"the fundamental problems are problems of theology": "at a moment when ecumenical Christianity is engaged in a fight for its ...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

ICEL, the International Commission for Emotivism in the Liturgy?

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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390, p. 84 (c. 980+) How the heck do you get from Domini est terra et plenitudo eius; venite, adoremus...
Friday, September 1, 2017

"The Christian can accept a fact which is incompatible with Christianity: he cannot accept a theory which is incompatible with Christianity."

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     T. S. Eliot, "The Christian in the modern world," a previously unpublished lecture "delivered at the annual meeting of t...

"What ideological and semantic shifts might achieve better results, by enrolling everyone in a more productive dialogue?"

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"Like Gay, when attempting to discuss white privilege, Eddo-Lodge encounters denial and defensiveness — this is, she says, 'one of ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

The "'structural' sin of modern liberal cultures"

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"the peculiarity of our age lies precisely in its ability to render invisible, as it were, the primacy it accords to relations of power...